AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 A rig drills in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ecuador is seeking investment in its oil and gas sector. (Source: Shutterstock.com) Ecuador is not typically the place people think of for booming oil production. Its output has remained stable over the past 10 years due to relatively stagnant exploration activity. But […]

AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 The golden-crowned manakin is the only known hybrid species in the Amazon. Resistance to crossing rivers gave it the space to evolve into something new. The golden-crowned manakin, a rare tropical bird with a green mantle and bright yellow feathers that would look right at home in a […]

AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 19/01/2018 Members of an indigenous group from the Amazon region during a Jan. 19 meeting at Madre de Dios stadium in Puerto Maldonado, Peru. (CNS/Paul Haring) Puerto Maldonado, Peru — Pope Francis stood among the indigenous peoples of the Amazon Rainforest Jan. 19 to criticize the ramp-up of the global extraction […]

AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN: 11/01/2018 State oil company starts second phase of drilling in one of the world’s most biodiverse hotspots A flame flares at the oil production facility on the border of the Yasuní national park in Ecuador. Photograph: Georg Ismar/Alamy Ecuador’s state oil company has begun drilling the first of 97 […]

AMAZON PINK DOLPHIN 10/01/2018 José Napoleón Tarrillo Astonitas murdered for opposing land traffickers seeking to clear land in the Chaparrí Ecological Reserve, say local witnesses A criminal gang involved in land trafficking has tortured and murdered a community leader in northern Peru, according to his wife and local villagers who witnessed the killing […]